noun:

• rescue and assistance (by public bodies) (e.g. in time of disaster)

noun / ~する noun:

• kicking a ball in mid-air (soccer, football) - From English "volley shoot"

noun:

• hungry spirit (lacking in people not having drive or ambition)

noun:

• title of a thread in email, news, etc. - From English "thread title"

noun:

• flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad) - Buddhism term ➜ 三尊【さんぞん】・中尊【ちゅうぞん】

noun:

• user needs (generally in market research and IT)

noun:

• congratulatory postcards with a spring pattern sold every year in February

noun:

• pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter; rotated grazing - four character idiom ➜ 夏山冬里方式

noun:

• decorative string used to hold a kimono sash in place

noun:

• in calligraphy, a triangular stroke going from upper left to lower right

noun:

• Reiyukai (Buddhist sect founded in 1919 as an offshoot of Nichiren Buddhism)

noun:

• gomokuzushi wrapped in a thin layer of fried egg

noun:

• structure of an artwork; pictorial design
• pictures inserted in a book

noun:

• repeat of a deuce (in tennis, etc.) - usu. as ジュースアゲーン, アゲーンワン, etc. - From English "again"

adverb:

• again

noun:

• sport similar to ball-toss game played in schools (All Japan Tamaire) - abbreviation ➜ 玉入れ

noun:

• railgun (gun in which a conductive projectile is propelled using electromagnetic force)

noun:

• coilgun (gun in which a magnetic projectile is propelled using electromagnetic coils)

noun:

• nonenal (fatty acid responsible for a distinctive body odor in older people) ➜ 加齢臭

noun:

• signs, symbols and characters used in manga to represent actions, emotions, etc. - slang

noun:

• sleight of hand (e.g. in magic tricks) - From English

noun:

• continuous session (e.g. trading in a stock exchange); zaraba

noun:

• blankety-blank; bleep; used in place of sensitive word (often sexually related) - sometimes also **, ○○, etc. - manga slang ➜ 伏せ字

noun:

• high tension (as in electronics, etc.)
• excited; enthusiastic

noun:

• Azuma-asobi (ancient Japanese dance suite that originated in eastern Japan) - archaism

noun:

• san jiao (triple heater; functional metabolic organ in Chinese medicine)